Sample Sentences forlaggard (auto-selected)
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By the late innings of the game the rest of the room—a few laggard coals glowed orange beneath the fireplace grate—lay sleeping in soft, quiescent shadows.† (source)
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He looks down at the back of Jackie's glossy head and he looks at his own trouser cuffs flaked an intimate beige and the spatter across his shoe tops in a strafing pattern and the gumbo puddle nearby that contains a few laggard gobs of pinkoid stuff from deep in Gleason's gastric sac.† (source)
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It rides ahead of your laggard will.† (source)
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"It was in nineteen—twenty-four—or twenty-five—" He had remained standing, but Royal Dumphry, shy as he had seemed at first, was no laggard with his pick and spade; he spoke to Francisco in a flip, intimate manner, but the latter, ashamed of him, joined Dick in trying to freeze him away.† (source)
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Throughout that first year at the Beijing Dance Academy, I was considered a laggard by most of my teachers.† (source)
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And again he vigorously nudged the teacher's pet in the ribs to spur his laggard humor.† (source)
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The laggards and limpers who weren't running the course but running deep into their character—down into the cave to return to the light with what they found.† (source)
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He hurried on, skipping sometimes out of sheer deliverance, sometimes waving at a laggard pole, gurgling to himself, giggling at himself, absurdly weary.† (source)
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Highgarden and Storm's End support his claim, and the Dornishmen will not be laggardly.† (source)
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Twilight had long fallen when a little company of laggards, their SS escorts urging them to make haste, passed the building where I was still hiding.† (source)
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"Malluch is a laggard to-night," he said, showing where his thoughts were.† (source)
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A thousand feet up the immense slant of the Lhotse Face, I ascended a faded nylon rope that seemed to go on forever, and the higher I got, the more laggardly I moved.† (source)
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The congregation being fully assembled, now, the bell rang once more, to warn laggards and stragglers, and then a solemn hush fell upon the church which was only broken by the tittering and whispering of the choir in the gallery.† (source)
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The lessons of yesterday had been that retribution was a laggard and blind.† (source)
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"I hear fifty...sixty-five...seventy...": the bidding was laggardly, nobody seemed really to want Babe, and the man who got her, a Mennonite farmer who said he might use her for plowing, paid seventy-five dollars.† (source)
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Eragon charged forward, ignoring the panicked laggards within reach of his burning sword.† (source)
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